In regards to the recent fiasco of the Village Entrance project with the landscape planted prior to the Arts Commission installation of the art project, the city has wasted an untold amount of taxpayer money. We put the blame squarely on the city’s community development director. In the private sector where we work, the person in charge would take the responsibility for being asleep at the helm and resign or be fired. Come to read in the Laguna Beach Independent, our community development director plans to step down and retire next year.
Not so fast! Shouldn’t he take the blame for this misplanning, miscalculation, miscoordination? What has he been doing? What was he paid to do? What’s the mayor doing, allowing him to retire and collect several more months of salary and then retire next year? What a joke. We the citizens are the boss, and we do not agree. We need answers.
Cathy Gardner, Laguna Beach
WE MUST SUE !
How?
When Greg Pfost was Deputy Community Development Director at the city of Rancho Palos Verdes he failed to properly do his job regarding the Green Hills Memorial Park mausoleum. The city investigated Mr Pfost and his colleagues for their mistakes throughout the planning process.
Mr. Pfost’s colleague was placed on administrative leave and ultimately resigned when the investigation was completed. Mr. Pfost avoided all that by parachuting into Laguna Beach. How? He’d been working with our now Councilwoman Sue Kempf on the view restoration committee, so he had connections here.
Here’s the news story at the time:
https://www.dailybreeze.com/2015/07/29/rancho-palos-verdes-probe-into-green-hills-mausoleum-reveals-perfect-storm-of-errors/
Here’s the report that concluded Mr. Pfost failed to perform his duties adequately:
http://www.pvpwatch.com/documents/GreenHillsReport-AdministrativeInvestigatio….pdf
I’m sure the city of Rancho Palos Verdes was glad to be done with him, and I’m sure certain people in Laguna Beach were happy to have a malleable personality at their disposal.
Thank you!! again isn’t management supposed to oversee the operation of the city? And now I understand this under qualified community envelopment director who was hired by our city is retiring soon and taking a huge pension that we the tax payers have to pay for the next 30-40 years, who is the responsibility of decent employees governed by? yep, we got a lot of fishy in this city and the residents definitely do not come up in the net!
sorry, I meant the under qualified community development director, but envelope sounds good too..LOL
I see the link to the report is broken. See if copying and pasting this makes it work: pvpwatch.com/documents/GreenHillsReport-AdministrativeInvestigatio….pdf
Mr. Pfost is mentioned 124 times in the report. Investigators conclude he failed to do his duties.
As Planning Commissioner Sue Kempf recommended Mr. Pfost for the job, but neglected to disclosed to the public Mr. Pfost was under a city-wide investigation at the time of her recommendation.
This is the biggest load of crap next to the digester. Rick Blaine is really some angry Village Laguna person hiding behind Casablanca. ???